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...British Isles. The original buildings were erected in 1809 to confine the French prisoners from the Emperor's army. Later some of the Americans in the war of 1812 found there way to its barren courtyard. At that time Dartmoor established a reputation for cruelty and discomfort which is now almost legendary in its fame. In 1850 the building assumed its present status of a convict prison. With true British love for tradition it has sturdily maintained its original character...
...make the convicts remember that they are human. There is a wierd quiet that hangs over the place which is augmented only by the wierder call of the Tern. This is not an environment which lends itself to character building. The prison is of ancient design with all the discomfort and severity of the early Victorian period. Nothing is done to ease the burden of the penal existence...
...underplot in Sooky concerns Sooky's efforts to get into a juvenile club whose members wear uniforms and drill like soldiers. To do this, he learns how to play a bugle, marches with Skippy in a parade arranged to discomfort Skippy's father who is running for mayor. Presently, Sooky's mother dies; Sooky goes to live at Skippy's house. Given a soldier's uniform, he wears...
...governor. Loud, red-headed Governor Long soon began to fulfill his campaign promises, to turn Louisiana topsy-turvy. Lieutenant Governor Cyr broke with him, became his bitter foe. When Governor Long ran for the U. S. Senate last year he made another promise, aimed to reassure Louisiana voters, to discomfort Cyr, whom he called "the retired tooth chiseler." If elected, he promised, he would not take his seat until after his term as Governor expired in May 1932. He was elected...
...dozen scientists, some in their underwear, some in trousers, all in acute discomfort, at about the cabin of the Graf Zeppelin as she ambled one day last week from Friedrichshafen to Berlin, first stop on her 1931 Arctic cruise. To minimize the load, each man's baggage had been limited to the heavy fur & woolen clothing required in the Far North...